Re-reading it I'm surprised, considering what was going on in the wider market, how calm it sounded.
The sniveling little voice in my head had said "oh my God, we're all going to die" a few hundred times as the DJIA dropped from 10,831.07 on Oct. 1 to 8,451.19 on Oct. 10.

I was probably trying to keep the pups from going all catatonic, curling up on the floor and moaning.
I had dibs on that move.

Here's e2t:

One of the uglier details
of the Solyndra scandal is that when the Department of Energy helped
Solyndra restructure its loan in early 2011, it agreed that $75 million
in new funds from private investors became senior debt that ensured it
would be paid back ahead of $385 million in federal loans (taxpayer
money). During the hearing on Wednesday that looked into what happened
in the run up to Solyndra’s bankruptcy, Republicans raised the
suggestion that putting private investors funds before government money
in such a way is breaking the law.

During the hearing, Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) called the subordination of the government funds to private investors an “apparent violation of the law,” and Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) called the subordination potentially “a direct violation of federal law.”

Republicans pointed to a paragraph in the Energy Policy Act of 2005
that says obligations, or loan guarantees, shall not be subordinated to
other financing, and asked Executive Director of the Loan Program
Jonathan Silver why he didn’t think that restructuring the loan to
subordinate funds was against the law....MORE